Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Microsoft Clarity vs. Google Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Microsoft Clarity vs. Google Analytics?

    Caroline asks, “What’s better than Google Analytics to measure what your visitors are actually doing when on your website?”

    I’ve been playing with the new Microsoft Clarity recently, and it’s not, despite what people say, a Google Analytics killer. It’s a Hotjar killer, or at least a worthy competitor – and it’s free. Watch the video for an introduction.

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    In today’s episode, Karolina asks what’s better than Google Analytics to measure what your visitors are actually doing? When on your website, there’s a ton of really good software packages out there that do stuff like this.

    There’s click tail, there’s Crazy Egg, Lucky Orange.

    But the one that I’ve been playing with most recently, that does a really good job, keeps it simple.

    And is also free, is from this little company you might have heard of called Microsoft, they released this package called Microsoft clarity that a lot of people, when it first was announced, we’re incorrectly comparing it to Google Analytics, calling it a Google Analytics killer.

    It’s not, it is a very different application than Google Analytics.

    What it is, is a hot jar killer, or at the very least a worthy competitor to all those different companies I just mentioned.

    A because it’s Microsoft.

    So you know that, you know, while the product itself could be discontinued, the company’s probably not going anywhere.

    And be it’s very, okay to complain about that.

    So what is this thing? And how do we use it with our website? Let’s go ahead and move things around here.

    Okay, so what you’ve probably noticed in Google Analytics is that there’s actually not a whole lot of useful stuff in Google Analytics for looking at your site, what you need is something that can track the interactions that users are having on your site.

    So that’s where clarity comes in, setting it up, very straightforward.

    It is like every single other tracking program, is you just put your tracking pixel on your site, I used Google Tag Manager to do it.

    And it was pretty straightforward.

    Let’s go ahead and connect my site here.

    And I’ve got my Google Analytics integration there.

    Now, let’s go to the dashboard and see what this does.

    You do get some basic analytics, and that’s nice.

    You can see, you know, sessions and things like that.

    But again, there’s no things in here better specify like goals, and goal completions and all that stuff, you’re not going to get that level of detail.

    What you do get, though, is a lot of UI stuff, user interface stuff, dead clicks, where people are clicking on parts of the page that they think should do something and don’t, you get rage clicks, which I appreciate people just rapidly clicking on the same space, excessive scrolling.

    These are good indicators that people are lost, right? There’s something wrong with your site.

    And then you get to scroll down and see pages that people have gotten back on page with the JavaScript errors that you might want to fix up.

    Like, all the other user experience tools, you get recordings and heat maps.

    So recordings are pretty straightforward.

    You go in, you tap on the recording, and then you get to watch somebody navigating your website and see what it is that they do.

    And this will give you hints, you know, for example, like, Oh, this person, maybe isn’t reading the first part of the article and things like that, by skip forward here.

    There.

    What are they doing? Oh, they’re trying to copy and paste, it looks like, yep, they’re trying to copy and paste text from my site.

    That’s interesting.

    And then, in addition to recordings, of course, get the heat maps, right, where are people clicking on your page and get a chance to see those clicks, what people are doing on your site? Let’s go back to our dashboard here.

    As far as I can tell, there aren’t any significant limits or restrictions yet, but even if they were just out of the box, this isn’t bad, right? It’s simple.

    Its straightforward.

    It tells you very quickly, hey, there’s either things wrong with you, or there’s not.

    I’m not terribly concerned about the dead click stuff, as we were seeing, just now, people were actually trying to copy and paste text, which is interesting.

    I think I’ll just give some thought about about that.

    And then things like JavaScript errors, okay.

    That’s something I need to fix.

    Right? If there if people are running into issues on my site where JavaScript is spinning up on them, I probably need to go ahead and do some investigation and tune that up.

    Again, with any of these diagnostics, you can either click in on just that part of the audience, right? You can see like 15% of those people who had JavaScript errors have chrome issues, or were in Chrome.

    Let’s go ahead and look at Safari, Apple users only had 8% of that.

    So Safari fares a little bit better.

    But this is a really handy tool.

    Now here’s the catch with a tool like this.

    It as with everything is spitting up a lot of information.

    So the number one thing we have to do is be very clear.

    What is it that we’re trying to find out? Are we trying to find out that conversions are down on a specific page If so, you know, find that page and our list of pages Or just use the filters to identify which particular pages you might want.

    And you can see there’s tons and tons of different filters you can use.

    Are we looking for user experience problems? are we dealing with a retention problem where people are leaving quickly? For example, we have this quick box here where it is people who navigate to a page and then left quickly.

    Okay, let’s take a look at that.

    What pages are they? To start with? And then you can watch the recordings and say, Ah, you know, they either based on what they’re doing on screen, they either data they didn’t find what they were looking for.

    So with a tool like this, we’ve got to be clear about what it is that we want to know.

    And what it is that what our goal is, what decisions we’re going to make, because it’s a fun tool, right? You can spend a lot of time in here, because it wastes a lot of time.

    And if you don’t have time to waste, have to be very clear about what decision you want to make.

    When you look at each of these things.

    What is the decision that is in here? Dead clicks? Right? Your decision you’re trying to make is, do I need to add navigation to my site? because something is unclear, right? Do I need to change the formatting to make it clear what the clickable objects are and what are not? A lot of sites tend to like to, you know, change the color or or mask the color of hyperlinks, okay, maybe that’s not the best idea if you’re getting a lot of dead clicks.

    And in order to understand that, and this is where this product can run into trouble, we need to understand the priority of the pages we should be looking at and what issues those pages have.

    So let me give you an example.

    Let’s put in our URL, newsletter.

    Okay, we’re gonna apply that.

    And this is my newsletter page, right? Six of the six of these.

    Let’s click on that.

    Now.

    This is the landing page, right? This is therefore very important page to my site.

    I want to very specifically look at this page and go Hmm, are there things here that I should be worried about that are blocking conversion.

    But if I didn’t know that this tool would not tell me that I needed to be looking at this particular landing page.

    So you’d want to know that going into this, hey, we’ve got a landing page conversion problem, maybe there’s something that we can take a look at in here that tells us our landing pages are running into trouble to get to that conclusion into work in the in Google Analytics data that will help you understand Okay, these are the priority pages to investigate, then come into clarity and say, Now let’s investigate those pages to understand why things are happening.

    It’s sort of like a essentially watching a focus group, right? Or a one on one user interview.

    You can see why they’re doing the things they’re doing on that page.

    But analytics will tell you what pages to look at.

    Because otherwise, you’ll waste hours in here by just clicking around with no clear conclusions.

    So to answer Carolyn’s question, what’s better than Google Analytics for actually on your website, Microsoft clarity.

    As long as you don’t have any administrative or legal or regulatory, regulatory restrictions on installing it, I would go ahead and install give it a spin.

    It doesn’t cost you anything.

    setting it up is as simple as setting up any other tool.

    And I think it’s a nice complement to Google Analytics.

    I think, especially since Google took away you know what little click tracking they had, I think this is a great companion to Google Analytics, and use both of them get follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Google Analytics 4 Long-Term Benefits?

    You Ask, I Answer: Google Analytics 4 Long-Term Benefits?

    Tanner asks, “Can you explain why Google Analytics 4 is supposedly going to be better in the long run?”

    Three major benefits that will take time to see the value:

    • The event model gives us much more granularity with our data.
    • BigQuery for all gives us the ability to create much more advanced attribution models and our own ‘secret sauce’ for unlocking the value of our data.
    • Improved cross-device tracking, especially if you have a mobile app.

    Watch the video for an explanation of how this benefits you.

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    In today’s episode, Tanner asks, Can you explain why Google Analytics four is supposedly going to be better in the long run? That’s a really good question.

    Because obviously, with a lot of the transition issues and the fact that it’s still a little rough around the edges, it may not be able to easy to see what those benefits are.

    And certainly, if you are not already on Google Analytics, for, there is no immediate need to make the switch, there is, in my opinion, the immediate need to get it set up and get it collecting data.

    But once you’ve done the basic setup, you can just set it and forget until you’re ready.

    And until the platform has matured.

    So there’s three big things that Google Analytics four offers that are different and better than what you get in Google Analytics, three, or Universal Analytics.

    The first, an easy one is the improved cross device tracking, especially if you have a mobile app.

    So if your company has a mobile app, having Google Analytics for allows you to unify your mobile app users with your web users, and that gives you a much bigger, better, cleaner picture of who your audience is.

    So that one’s kind of a no brainer.

    If you have a mobile app.

    If you don’t have a mobile app, you still do get better cross device tracking, and better raw data on the back end, because Google Analytics for as we’ve talked about, fundamentally, under the hood, is actually Firebase Analytics.

    It’s actually the Firebase database underneath there with the Google Analytics interface on top of it, the the GA four interface on top, so it’s built for mobile first, which is a phrase you’ve heard a lot from Google in the last 10 years, right? Mobile First, mobile first web mobile first indexing, mobile friendly mobile usability.

    Clearly, it’s not a surprise, right? These things are everywhere.

    It is a mobile first world.

    And so it makes sense for our animate analytics to reflect this particular strategy.

    That brings us to point number two, the event model that Google Analytics for uses is the Firebase model, where every interaction somebody has swipe, tap do this do that is tracked as its own separate event.

    That’s one of the reasons why out of the box, it says, you know, you want to turn on enhanced measurement, and it tracks all these extra things.

    Those are standard Firebase events.

    And so the benefit of this is that it makes our data more granular.

    If you look in the Google Analytics BigQuery, that it will set up for you automatically, it is much easier to see every individual interaction that a user has now, this is a lot more of a tenuous benefit right now to the average marketer, for the average database person, it’s a huge benefit.

    Because in the previous version of Google Analytics, you had four scopes, right, you had the hit, you had the session, you had the user, and you had the product.

    And not all the data was compatible with each one.

    Right? It was very, very challenging.

    In some cases, to get unified data out.

    If you wanted to know about users who had converted within a session, it was a real pain in the butt to get that what the Firebase database looks like, on the back end is the technical term is denormalized.

    Right? Instead of a unique user, a user will have a unique event and a whole bunch of, in some ways, duplication of the user data, it makes for a very big flat spreadsheet, essentially, instead of having, you know, four, actually, that’s a really good way of explaining it.

    Imagine those four scopes in Google Analytics, three are different for different tabs in a spreadsheet, it’s kind of a pain in the butt to get data from one tab to the next.

    Google Analytics for denormalize is that which is a fancy way of saying it just puts it all in one big sheet.

    So you don’t have to reference cells and other tabs and things like that, you can do it all in one table.

    This obviously has a major benefit for Google itself.

    Because a denormalized table is easier to process.

    It’s faster to process.

    But it has benefits for us as marketers if we have the skills to work with that kind of data.

    Because now, all the fields, all the dimensions and metrics that we’re used to that used to have these limitations don’t have those limitations anymore, we can query the database through either Google Analytics for or the back end database.

    And pull out that the data that we want and aggregated at the the level that we want to view things at so you can roll everything up to a user or you can break it down to a session or even into a session data.

    That in turn gives us the ability to have much better path analysis.

    There was a substantial limitation in Google Analytics three, four path tracking conversions it is it is still not great.

    But it’s a pain in the ass to get to get that data out.

    Because in the dimensions and metrics in in ga three, you had to reference a whole bunch of you know, the three steps before conversion, I’m trying to aggregate this model together, which you can do.

    But now in ga for this event model, it gives us the ability to track every single action, somebody took on the way to a path to purchase.

    So if you’re using advanced attribution models, suddenly, as long as you can retrofit your code, your model is so much better.

    Because you don’t you’re not limited to a look back window of the last three or four interactions that somebody had, you now can see if they’ve been on your website for an hour and a half clicking around, you can see all 5060 7080 hundred different events that happen before that conversion and build a much more robust conversion model.

    So that event model really gives us the granularity we need to do very substantial analysis.

    Is it easy? No, no, you got to be really good at working with that data.

    But can you work with it and turn it into valuable insights? Yes.

    The third major thing in the long run is that BigQuery integration.

    Up until now, only Google Analytics premium users were able to get the back end raw data from Google Analytics.

    Now, everybody has it.

    And again, this is not something that a non technical market is going to find a whole lot of benefit with.

    because it requires a lot of expertise.

    But for the technical marketer, this is a huge benefit.

    This is a massive benefit.

    Because you can now go in and get the raw data, you don’t have to do things Google’s way, if you have a better way of doing it, right.

    If you are a skilled programmer, and our Python or Java or any of the languages can talk to a BigQuery database, you can write your own code to access the data to process the data, and maybe even visualize the data in some other way.

    For a lot of the third party visualization tools like alteryx, and Tableau and stuff, they have BigQuery connectors that are native.

    and pulling data out of a BigQuery database is way easier than pulling it out of the Google Analytics API.

    It’s faster, it’s more accurate, you run into fewer connection issues.

    So for the data driven marketer, that BigQuery integration is a massive benefit.

    And it will be better in the long run.

    What this means for most marketers, at least those who have the budget to either build the technical capability themselves or hire it out, is that you’ll have much more custom attribution models, you’ll have much more custom audience models.

    And you’ll have your special sauce, your unique way of of analyzing your data that other companies don’t have, right? That technical proficiency will be part of your secret sauce that makes your company more successful.

    If you have a better model, a better template a better algorithm for analyzing that data, you can use that to create competitive advantage.

    Whereas other companies that are stuck with just the stock tools in the interface, they’ll do okay, right.

    But they won’t be able to reap the full power and benefits of that data.

    Google is essentially giving you all the raw ingredients and saying hey, some people are only going to be able to make pizza, right? And that’s okay, because pizza will feed you.

    But if you can take this flour, and yeast and all this stuff, you can make breads, muffins, and pies and all these things that other people might not be able to.

    So that’s where you’re going to see in the years to come.

    A big competitive difference is those companies that can leverage the data.

    And those companies that can’t.

    So those are the three major benefits, they’re going to take time to see the value, there’s one more benefit and that is for agencies specifically, again, if you develop a proficiency if you develop a capability who developed the algorithms and the models and the software to leverage the data that will be part of your secret sauce that you can bring to your clients.

    And that can be a major major benefit.

    So if you got follow up questions, it’s a good topic follow up questions, leave them in the comments below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Advanced Social Media Strategy Tip?

    You Ask, I Answer: Advanced Social Media Strategy Tip?

    Anna asks, “Would you mind sharing a social media strategy tip that advanced marketers could use to improve their clients’ results?”

    Advanced is a relative term, but sure. The biggest question that challenges agencies is, what exactly are the results you’re being paid for? Once you’ve got that figured out, then use attribution analysis to guide your overall social media strategy.

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    In today’s episode asks, would you mind sharing a social media strategy tip that advanced marketers could use to improve their clients results? advanced is a relative term.

    The challenge about asking for advanced tips is it really depends on what you mean by advanced.

    But Sure, let’s do something that is a little more advanced than the average market is probably going to be doing.

    Here’s the thing with agencies with social media and with results.

    Very, very, very few clients and agencies are really clear on the results they’re trying to achieve on behalf of a client.

    If you are not clear about that, and you don’t have any way of measuring it, then you’re going to produce results and strategies and tactics that are effectively meaningless, that they’re at best cranking out vanity metrics.

    And then you have no mathematical proof that the thing that you’re doing has any impact on the business.

    So the prerequisite to this tip is that you’ve got to have things like solid web analytics in place with goals and goal values that are connected to the business that have meaning.

    If you are being paid just to crank out followers or engagements or mentions, then there really isn’t a whole lot of advanced strategy to that.

    Because the results not particularly advanced, right? where things get advanced is when you start connecting your social media results to actual business results.

    And being able to demonstrate Yes, this thing that we’re doing actually matters.

    So what is something like that look like? Well, on my own website, I have a bunch of conversions, you can buy a book, sign up for newsletter, etc.

    And what I want to know is, what of the activities I’m doing actually matter.

    Right? What stuff has meaning as helping me achieve my goals.

    So let’s go ahead and bring this up here.

    This is a data driven customer journey, something that Trust Insights produces for its clients.

    Now, what you’re looking at here is an attribution model.

    It’s an attribution models for digital channels, derived from Google Analytics data.

    And the premise is that as with things like sports, just because somebody a player scores the the goal, or the basket or the point or whatever, doesn’t mean that the other people on the team didn’t have some kind of participation in that right, very, very few sports are played, where there’s one person who does all the work, and everybody else just kind of sits on the bench and watches, right.

    Tennis, I guess would be, but it’s not a team sport.

    So like basketball, hockey, American football, European football, all these all these players on the field.

    And the question that a lot of coaches want to understand is what is what are the synergies between those players? Is there somebody who’s a really good, you know, it’s got really good passing game in basketball, and can get the ball to the person who can shoot.

    When we look at attribution models and marketing, a lot of the times, they’re all what’s called last touch.

    So again, you’re looking at the last person who touched the ball before the basket went in.

    Well, that ignores the fact that that person can’t take the shot, if the ball never gets to them.

    A good attribution model, a more sophisticated attribution model looks at the interplay between all the different players.

    So in this case, what we’re looking at here are the different sources and mediums for things that contribute to conversions on my website.

    And it may not be the last thing somebody did.

    In fact, it probably is not something somebody did a good amount of the time, but it was it played such a pivotal role.

    Any one of these things listed on this chart that it helped along a conversion.

    And that helps us better set things like budgets and resources.

    So when I look at this, I’ve color coded here by things like social media, or referral traffic, etc.

    And we see that that magenta, I guess, this magenta color, Twitter about line six, is responsible for 2.1% of the conversions on my website, right.

    Now, keep in mind, I post on stuff like LinkedIn, and Facebook, and Pinterest and all these different websites frequently, right? But Twitter here is the one that’s generating traffic and conversions.

    Facebook is way down to the bottom here.

    See, it’s like fifth from the bottom is Facebook.

    And YouTube is kind of in the middle of the pack.

    So at least I’m doing something right with YouTube, but these videos, but it’s still not generating the same kind of results that Twitter is.

    So for me, when I’m talking about my social media strategy that generates results I have to do is look at this chart and go Now I know what’s generating conversions for me.

    And here’s the question.

    And this is where your strategy goes up a level, you see the results in a chart like this.

    Now, the question is, how does that match with the effort and the resources you’re putting into it? If Twitter is my number six performing channel, but as number three in terms of consuming budget, there’s a problem, right? If YouTube is number one on 11, or 12, on here, but it’s number 14 on my budget list, right? Like I pay no money, I give YouTube no time, then that would be a good thing, right? That would suggest, hey, maybe that mismatch means there’s an A results arbitrage opportunity, if I put minimal impact into YouTube now.

    I mean, if I put minimal effort into YouTube now, and I’m getting this impact, what would happen if I scaled up my effort, vice versa? If I look at Twitter, when I say ha, I’m putting, you know, 10% of my effort into Twitter, and I’m only getting 2% of the results.

    That’s not a good sign.

    Right.

    So with really good attribution analysis with effective attribution analysis, you can judge the relative ratios of the effort and the results that you’re getting for any of your marketing channels, but especially social media channels.

    And we want to do this at the individual channel level, because a lot of the times, particularly for large organizations, you may have a different team even that runs Facebook, then Twitter, then YouTube, then Instagram.

    And if you don’t have your data split out like this, it’s harder to get at that.

    Now, can you do this with Google Analytics in the interface? No, this is something that has to be done outside of Google Analytics, because Google Analytics does not have the processing capability to offer to users to give them this report, in a timely fashion, they could absolutely do it.

    But it would just be like, go get a sandwich and get the support later.

    And so that’s what makes this advanced is you need to write code to talk to the Google Analytics API to get the data out to run this analysis.

    Unless you’re using the new Google Analytics for In which case, you should be talking to your BigQuery database to get the same information out.

    But that’s what makes it advanced.

    It’s, there’s a technical barrier to entry.

    And then there’s what you do with the data.

    If you just look at this and go, ha, that’s cool.

    And then you move on with your day, and you don’t change anything that this has no value.

    Right? It’s like any metrics, you look at it, you don’t change what you do, has no value, what Seth Godin says, if you don’t change what you eat, or how often you exercise, don’t get on scale, right? Same thing with analytics, if you’re not going to change what you do and how you spend and what your strategy is, you don’t need analytics, right? Because the data doesn’t inspire a decision.

    The advanced part of this comes from making a decision from our data.

    In this case, I’m going to say, hey, emails working really well.

    What can I do with more email? Right? I’m not spending a lot of money on it.

    I’m not spending a lot of time on it compared to the time I spend on YouTube every day, right? Or on video every day.

    Maybe I should be doing a daily newsletter instead.

    I’m into interesting things to ponder.

    So that’s it advanced social media strategy tip for the advanced marketer.

    And if you’re not at this point yet, in terms of being able to create these reports, hey, hit me up.

    We do them for for clients, and then you have to do the decision making based on them.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Source/Medium for Google Analytics 4 in Data Studio?

    You Ask, I Answer: Source/Medium for Google Analytics 4 in Data Studio?

    Jakes asks, “I’ve moved 5 sites To Google Analytics 4, set up a host of custom events in Tag Manager to recreate what I’m missing from GA3, but where do find Source Medium Campaign In Data Studio With GA4? Am I missing something obvious?”

    Yeah… it’s not there yet. That connector is still in beta, according to a Google employee, which seems like an oversight. I’ll show you the workaround for how to get source/medium data in Google Data Studio from your Google Analytics 4 data.

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    In today’s episode Jake’s asks, I’ve moved five sites to Google Analytics for setup a host of custom events and Tag Manager to recreate what I’m missing from ga three.

    But where do I find source medium campaign data in Google Data Studio with ga 4am? I missing something obvious? Yeah, ah, it’s not there yet.

    Which seems like a bit of an oversight.

    In fact, Jake went on to ask this exact question.

    Let’s flip around here.

    Yes, is the exact question to Google and a Google employee said it’s still in preview.

    It’s not there yet.

    But fields themselves may not be available in the API? Well, that’s not helpful since source medium is kind of one of those critical things you want to know.

    So the question then is, what can we do to solve this problem is, is the data just not there is something Oh, what’s going on.

    So there’s a couple different ways to handle this.

    First, let’s figure out is the database so good and go into Google Analytics, one of the functions that we have access to it is in the advanced setup, is you have access to Google BigQuery, which is Google’s cloud database.

    And if you have a Google Cloud account setup, which I would strongly encourage you to set one up, it doesn’t cost you any money out of the gate, it just cost storage time and money over time, you can connect to Google BigQuery database to your Google Analytics.

    Now, this is advanced stuff.

    But for the purposes of at least just being able to see the data, I think it’s essential.

    So in BigQuery, I went into my database, and just started looking at what’s in the table.

    And we see for every single interaction, you get these dozens and dozens and dozens of parameters.

    Right? So this is the raw data from from Google Analytics.

    This is one of the reasons By the way, why Google Analytics four will eventually be the gold standard for Google Analytics deployments.

    Because it’s really hard to top this, like, pure raw data, it’s wonderful.

    What you’ll notice here is that there is traffic source name, medium, and source.

    So source medium, and name is in that which is a campaign.

    This is a good thing.

    This is This means that the data in fact, traffic source name, if you look at the formatting kinda looks like a default channel grouping, doesn’t it? It’s kind of interesting.

    And the the the platform, whether it’s web or app, so the data is there.

    It’s physically present, which means that we could get it into Google Data Studio, the challenges is going to be how do we get it into Google Data Studio? Well, one of the things that we can do in Data Studio is bring in data a BigQuery database natively.

    So I’ve got my Google Analytics for data here.

    Right, we can see, it’s, it’s right there.

    And as Jakes was saying, when you look in the fields that are available, yes, source medium, totally absent, right? It’s not, it’s just not there.

    So how do we do this? How do we get source medium data at all? Let’s go ahead and add some data.

    I’m going to add Google BigQuery.

    And we’re going to choose my BigQuery project.

    Oops, like that.

    And then choose my not not my real time database, but my regular database.

    And look, as we’ve been talking about previous videos, Google Analytics for really is Google Firebase right.

    And so there’s a an existing Firebase template already set up for us, we add that to our data source, oh, added to our report.

    And now let’s go ahead and make a new chart.

    And now for our chart, we’ve got our Firebase database here instead of Google Analytics, right? So let’s go ahead and we’ve got our event date there.

    And instead of offset, let’s do unique users.

    And now, you see acquired source acquired medium acquired campaign.

    Now we’re starting to be able to see those different variables.

    So let’s go ahead and add in sources of breakdown dimension.

    Looking good, right now, we can start to see more clearly where our traffic is coming from.

    And there are major sources if this is difficult to read, obviously switch the visualization to anything else that makes sense to you.

    But now we’ve got our source medium data in here from Google Analytics the hard way, right, using the BigQuery database instead of the fact that the API does not have the data in it.

    Now, this is a workaround.

    Let’s be clear.

    This is a workaround, isn’t it? Convenient workaround I would expect, based on the Google employees response, that this will not be the state of things going forward.

    Right.

    This is, while they figure out how to build all the pieces that need to be built to surround the Google Analytics ecosystem, this is the workaround.

    I would hope that this is not permanent, because it’s silly.

    But if you are deploying Google Analytics for right now, it is in your interest to do the BigQuery integration, and to have the BigQuery database available and collecting data so that if you do need to report on your ga four data for some reason, because it’s not right, clearly, for every business to be using right now, but if you didn’t need to do that report, and you have the option to pull in the BigQuery data and report on it natively within Google Data Studio.

    This also speaks to the fact that Google Analytics for you in its entirety, as part of the ecosystem with Tag Manager analytics, and Data Studio is not ready for primetime yet, it is not something that you should be using as your system of record for your marketing data.

    Should you have it? Yes.

    Should you have it turned on? Yes.

    Should you be collecting data? Yes.

    Should you be relying on it for your mission critical reporting? knew? Not if you’re going to have to keep doing, you know, hacks and workarounds like this, just to get the data out of the platform or be pulling data straight out of your your BigQuery database now? Should you be doing advanced analytics and building on it? Probably, because what you see in BigQuery is the raw data, right? It is the raw data and that schema is well established.

    So it’s already, it’s already established.

    It’s been established.

    It’s Google Firebase.

    And thus, you could feel pretty confident in building code on top of the Firebase database.

    But should you be relying on the GA four API? Definitely not.

    So the workaround for bringing it into Data Studio is to use Firebase, the Firebase database until the GA four API gets updated within Google Data Studio, that will give you the ability to visualize this stuff a little more easily.

    But know that the data is there.

    Right.

    That’s the important part, the data is there.

    So it will eventually be available.

    So you can feel confident, deploying Google Analytics for and knowing that it will collect all the data that it’s supposed to be, and build all those custom events, as Jake’s was talking about, get all this Custom Event setup and Tag Manager.

    So you’re tracking all things you want to be tracking? Because remember, it’s never retroactive.

    And then, as the product matures as the infrastructure overall, the Google Marketing Platform matures around Google Analytics for you’ll be able to do more and more with less and less headache.

    So that’s the answer.

    It’s a terrible answer.

    But that’s the answer.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: 2021 Data-Driven Marketing Strategy?

    You Ask, I Answer: 2021 Data-Driven Marketing Strategy?

    Magdalena asks, “How have decision-making processes changed as we look at marketing in 2021? What’s your data-driven perspective?”

    As we plan for the year ahead, we have to look at three sources of data:
    – macro data such as the pandemic
    – audience behavioral data
    – our first party data

    The challenge with all three is that we still have no baseline. The environment we’re operating in is still very fluid and unpredictable.

    We cannot rely on past data earlier than the pandemic. That world is gone and isn’t coming back.

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    In today’s episode, Magdalena asks, how have decision making processes changed as we look at marketing in 2021? What’s your data driven perspective, it’s that time of year where we’re doing 2021, planning and trying to do our forecasting and stuff.

    And as we plan for the year ahead, we have to look at a bunch of different things in order to make any kind of decisions.

    And I’ll tell you upfront, it’s gonna be harder than ever, this year to do any really effective forecasting no matter what business you’re in.

    Because of the macro environment, we are still, as of the time of this recording, not only in a global pandemic button, a worsening one, and that is changing a lot of the environment that we operate in, it’s just the way things are right now.

    And so for the year ahead, we’re gonna really need to look at three different classes of data.

    The first class of data is macro data.

    So this is macro economic data, societal data.

    The most obvious thing here would be, for example, with regard to the pandemic, the severity of it, in terms of all the data around the pandemic is relevant and important.

    It will guide a lot of our decision making.

    For example, as of yesterday, the United Kingdom announced a lockdown.

    So they are changing how they’re operating parts of Europe, Spain, etc, have gone into lockdown.

    And so that changes the business environment, right.

    Depending on the phase you are in and your your regions reopening will dictate what kinds of business you can and can’t do.

    If you represent, for example, restaurants, things.

    A lockdown is a very different operating environment than a partially restricted environment.

    So we have to pay attention to that data, we have to pay attention to other macroeconomic data, things like here in the United States, we have the Federal Reserve Bank publishing data like household savings, unemployment, and underemployment, household income, all these data points that give us a sense of what’s happening in the broad world out there.

    Because what’s happening at the macro level, obviously changes every business.

    In the beginning of the pandemic, it was very much b2c data that was heavily impacted.

    But now, you know, eight, nine months in, we’re looking at the ripple effects of those challenges on the b2b supply chain.

    So every business without exception is being impacted in some way.

    The second thing we have to look at is audience behavioral data.

    And this helps us clue into what’s going on with our target population.

    This is stuff like social media data.

    How interactive is our audience? how engaged is our audience? Not with us specifically, but just in general? If you have already put together like a focus groups of your ideal prospects, and you’re monitoring them on Twitter as a Twitter list, you should be looking at the activity level.

    What are they talking about? What are the topics that are top of mind? Again, as the time of this recording, we’re about to head into an election in the United States, it is one of the biggest topics of discussion right now.

    It’s kind of drowning out everything.

    That has been for quite some time.

    So we need to keep that in mind.

    What is our audience searching for? So search data is absolutely vital.

    If we don’t have good access to search data, to what our audience is searching for, we’re going to be blind, right.

    And again, we have to be very careful that we’re using data that is current.

    And then the third pool of data is our first party data.

    This is our web analytics, our marketing automation data, our CRM data, and decision making processes for building a data driven marketing strategy have to look at all three pools of data, have to look for correlations in that data, and then, to the best of your ability run any types of tests of causality to figure out if there are the changes that you’re seeing in the larger data sets are reflected in the smaller data.

    So big changes in behavioral data.

    And when it comes to organic search for your industry sector.

    Do you see that impacting your company’s SEO, that’s something you have to establish.

    The challenge with all three sets of data is that we don’t really have a baseline.

    We have not had a baseline since March of 2020.

    The op the environment we operate in is very fluid, very unpredictable.

    It is constantly changing.

    And it’s constantly changing in ways that impact our businesses.

    There’s always been, you know, a plethora of data there’s always been a bunch of things happening in the world but never to the this extent.

    In modern times in modern data driven marketing times have we had this much disruption all at once.

    And so we have to do two things.

    One, when it comes to 2121 planning, do not rely on data earlier than the pandemic start.

    Right? If you are looking at, you know, trying to forecast based on the last few years of data, it’s gonna be really risky to do that.

    At least not without a lot of data science and statistical work to D noise, some stuff in trying to accommodate for changes can be very difficult to use pre pandemic data, because fundamentally, the world itself, the underlying structure has changed.

    Right? There’s things that we don’t do any more even, like, if you are a lipstick company, guess what, you got people wearing masks, not as many as I would like, personally, but and that probably has impacted your your sales, right? So we can’t rely on data earlier than the pandemic, that world is gone, it’s not coming back.

    Even after the pandemic ends, even after we have vaccines distributed, and it’s reasonably safe to be out and about, again, some things are not going to change companies have discovered that, you know, having at least some part of the workforce work from home as a cost savings.

    So telework got a big shot in the arm.

    conferences and events are not gonna be the same for a while.

    A lot of businesses have closed, a lot of businesses have opened.

    And so the world itself is that used to be prior to March 2020, is isn’t coming back.

    So we have to acknowledge that we have to acknowledge that in our forecasting.

    The second thing we need to be doing is, from a data driven perspective on 2021, you’ve got to have really good near real time data, and be doing near real time analysis, you’ve got to be looking at your analytics way more frequently they happen if your company culture has been the sort that you know, runs quarterly reports, that is much too slow, much, much too slow.

    Your cadence should be at the pace of the I personally think should be at the pace of whatever the top couple steps in your marketing operations funnel are right, if it’s seven days from process, you know, from audience to prospect on your website, or wherever your systems are, that should be your monitoring interval, if not shorter, because things change.

    And things are changing so fast that if you’re not tracking and analyzing and watching data, you risk you really risk missing things that could either be substantial advantages, in terms of trends that you could contribute something meaningful to, or substantial risks, and other ground changes under you.

    And by the time your sales, people pick up the phone and say, Hey, marketing, you know, the the number of leads has really dropped off, it might be too late to make a change, right, it might be too late to pivot.

    So you’ve got to be looking at data at fast intervals.

    Use the tools that you have available to us, you know, Google Analytics use social media data, you search data to see how your audience is changing.

    Maybe even think about putting together like a near real time dashboard, a daily dashboard.

    And just looking for those those odd little drop offs and things that tell you hey, something’s up.

    Something’s not right.

    So that’s sort of my perspective on how our decision making has to change for data driven marketing.

    And as we go into 2021 look at those three sorts of sets of data.

    Don’t rely on data before the pandemic and really look at increasing the cadence the frequency at which you analyze your data.

    If you have follow up questions, leave the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Set Up Tags, Triggers, and Goals in Google Analytics 4?

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Set Up Tags, Triggers, and Goals in Google Analytics 4?

    Tara asks, “It seems pretty quick and simple to set up GA4, but do I need to set up all of the different triggers in the Tag Manager separately? Or can I just set up one Tag with all of the triggers?”

    Google Analytics 4 relies much more heavily on Google Tag Manager than GA 3 did. To answer this question, we need to clarify the roles of each piece of Tag Manager.

    A tag is the thing GTM does.
    A trigger is the thing GTM listens for.
    A variable is data GTM does something with.

    Goal configuration for Google Analytics 4 has now moved largely into Google Tag Manager. Watch the video for a complete walkthrough.

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    In today’s episode, Tara asks, it seems pretty quick and simple to set up Google Analytics for but do I need to set up all the different triggers in the Tag Manager separately? Or can I just set up one tag with all the triggers? Okay, so Google Analytics for leans much more heavily on Tag Manager than Google Analytics three ever did in Google Analytics, three or Universal Analytics.

    You could do everything in one application.

    Now it’s broken up into a couple of different places.

    So to answer this question, we have to clarify the roles of the different pieces of tag managers so that we understand what each piece is supposed to be doing in order to make, say, a goal work.

    Let’s go ahead and flip over here.

    Let’s go to Google Tag Manager, we have three fundamental things, we have tags, we have triggers, and we have variables.

    Variables are where data is stored in Google Tag Manager for things that you want to track.

    And initially, you’re going to rely heavily on the stuff that is built into the application.

    So for example, there’s all these built in variables.

    So these are the things that you can track, these are pieces of data that you can collect.

    The ones that I find we typically use the most for Google Analytics are things like the URL that somebody is clicking on the page that somebody is on maybe the page title, although that’s really unreliable, the form that somebody is filling out.

    So those are some of the big ones that out of the box, we tend to use things like scroll depth, etc.

    Also, you’ll typically also have like a Google Analytics for variable in here, which is your tracking ID, it’s best practice to always have that just as a as a preset variable so that you don’t ever miss type it particularly since the new tracking codes are now letters and numbers and not just numbers.

    So that’s what variables do.

    Again, you probably won’t spend a whole lot of time there.

    Triggers are what happened when Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager listens for something listens to something, the user doing something.

    And when the user does the thing, Tag Manager raises its hand says, Hey, I see somebody doing the thing.

    So Tara’s question, can you set up one tag with all the triggers? Not really, unless you want to have all these different triggers go off at the same time, which most the time is not going to be the case.

    You know, for example, in Google Analytics for when somebody completes a newsletter signup, right? Then they reach this page has this URL fragment, I want this trigger to raise its hand say, Hey, I see somebody doing the thing.

    Let’s let you know, I’m letting you know somebody is doing the thing.

    Tags are what tag manager does.

    So it listens for the trigger.

    And then when the trigger goes off, it says, Hey, I heard the thing.

    And then the tag is what tag manager does with the thing.

    So in this case, with the newsletter subscription goal, what we see here is here, we see that it sends an event to Google Analytics for right it says it listens for this trigger.

    And then it sends this piece of information, what’s the value of this thing? And what is the newsletter subscription goals.

    So that’s how you understand the concept of the way Tag Manager sends data to Google Analytics.

    So in order to build goals, we have to have a trigger for to listen to, or to have a tag for it to do something.

    And we have to track the corresponding event and make sure we understand that set up as a conversion in Google Analytics.

    So since I actually haven’t have not gotten around to fixing my own website yet, for a lot of these things, let’s build one of these sequences right now.

    I want to know, when somebody let’s see, let’s let’s do when somebody visits this page, my public speaking page, right, I think that’s a important page for me to understand if you’re visiting or not.

    So the first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to make a trigger I want to listen for when somebody visits that page, let’s name it something intelligent, GA for public speaking, trigger, one of the most important things you can do is have a good lexicon, a consistent lexicon, so that you can under so that your tag manager doesn’t get cluttered up with stuff is like I don’t know what that even means anymore.

    We’re gonna do a page view, why do we some pages I want my page to contain public speaking.

    Generally speaking, there are very few situations where you’re gonna want to do an exact match.

    Or an equals very, very few because for example, if you get to a page and from Facebook, it’s gonna have that fb clid ID on the end.

    And if it is, equals and stiff, contains Tag Manager won’t raise its hand.

    Okay, if you have contains, that’s our trigger.

    We’re saying Tag Manager, raise your hand when you see somebody on the Public Speaking page.

    And here’s what I want you to do.

    So we’re gonna call this ga for public speaking goals.

    I like to call them goals, even though g4 calls them conversions just so that I remember, oh, that’s the thing.

    We’re going to go to this to ga four tags, right? There’s the configuration, which is the base pixel, that you do once, and then you never touch it again.

    And then there’s the events, this is effectively a goal.

    We’re going to choose our ga for tag here, we’re going to call this public speaking goal.

    Again, they’re not called goals anywhere.

    But if you are trying to maintain sort of a lexicon is especially if you have Junior people on your team who may not have spent a whole lot of time working in in ga four, but they’re familiar with ga three, call it something intelligible.

    Is there a value that goal goes with this goal? I’m going to call this let’s call it $25.

    Right? Are there any user properties? I need to add? No, not at this time.

    Anything else I need to do with the sequencing? No, not at this time.

    I’m going to map this to my ga for public speaking trigger.

    So now, could I add more than one trigger to terrorists? question, yes, if I wanted to fire this trigger on a bunch of different things.

    In this case, I don’t in this case, I don’t want to know, I don’t, I only want one specific condition for this to match up to when hit save, actually, we’re going to copy this public speaking goal.

    And then hit save.

    And now we’re going to submit because otherwise, nothing ever happens.

    And now we want to tell analytics.

    Hey, listen for Tag Manager.

    And when tag manager says something, here’s what we want you to do with it.

    So I’m going to go to my conversions.

    In gf, we’re going to create a new conversion event, and how to paste in the exact matching name from Google Tag Manager.

    And now I’ve got this goal, effectively to conversion, it’s marked as a conversion already, you’ll note that you can set up just an event.

    And then once it appears, you can flag it as a conversion.

    I don’t trust that, I want to make sure that I’m declaring it upfront.

    So I’m going to go ahead and make sure that that public speaking goals in place.

    So now we’ve built this goal, we’ve set it up in Tag Manager, we’ve got our trigger, the condition we want it to listen in, and this, this is why Google has gone this way, there’s so much more flexibility with the kinds of things you can listen for, you can listen for link clicks, you can vote for some kinds of link clicks, you can listen for form submissions, whatever triggers you want that have support here, because there’s a whole bunch of different types you can support.

    Java JavaScripts time on page, if you if that was a goal in the previous thing.

    You can do all these things, how far down the page, somebody get on like, say a key landing page would be a cool trigger to listen for.

    And then the tags that you have, of course, give you again, a lot of flexibility.

    And you’re going to send data to different places, right.

    So in my tags, I’ve got some Google Analytics, three goals in here, which here is marked with Universal Analytics.

    And I’ve got a bunch of my Google Analytics for goals starting to be put into place as well.

    So that’s how we, we do this.

    It’s a lot more granular, right, it’s a lot more to keep track of.

    If there’s more than one person working in a Google Analytics, for instance, in your Google Tag Manager instance, I would strongly suggest using things like workspace environments, to keep things straight, having policies and procedures, maybe even the spreadsheet to track what each tag does.

    So that you know who put it in, and what they did with it, those are going to be really essential for keeping this a sensible, clean environment, you can see that this is just my account.

    And there’s still a fair number of things in here, right? This is just my account, one person’s in here.

    And it still can get a little bit messy.

    So if you’ve got multiple people in there, you definitely want governance of some kind, maybe even having, you know, tags named, not just with what they do, but maybe who put them in, and maybe an expiration date to say like Yeah, when this after this date, remove this tag, or at least pause it so that you keep it clean.

    Because your tag manager account as people switch to Google Analytics for your tag manager accounts gonna get a whole lot more busy because you can see for each individual goal and I’ve got to have a tag and a trigger to make it work well so it’s gonna get crowded in here.

    So make sure you have good governance.

    I’ve got follow up questions even in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Source/Medium Governance in Google Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Source/Medium Governance in Google Analytics?

    Jakes asks, “With the switch to GA4 Source/Medium is becoming so much more important, can you recommend any resources that I can share with our advertising stakeholders to upscale them on the best use of of these parameters?”

    This is a question of power and process. First, you have to have the organizational power to impose the change on stakeholders, which may require some time to build and a business case to be made. Second, you need a process to do it – even something as simple as a shared Google sheet.

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    In today’s episode Jake asks with the switch to Google Analytics for source medium is becoming so much more important.

    Can you recommend any resources I can share with our advertising stakeholders to upscale them on the best use of these parameters? So it’s good question.

    Source medium absolutely is now the way we’re going to measure and do attribution channel groupings are gone, because as we discussed in yesterday’s episode, they’re mostly wrong most of the time.

    So to make effective changes, we need two things, we need power and we need process.

    First, you need to have the organizational power to impose a change on stakeholders, whether it’s vendors or partners, or the departments in your company.

    And it’s gonna require some time to build, you’ll probably need to make a business case for it.

    Now, with a vendor partner, that’s actually pretty easy to say, look, we’re going to be measuring via source medium, because that’s the way you’re the future, we’re going to be building attribution models from it, if you want credit, for the work that you’re doing.

    If you want us to be able to reliably analyze your ROI, you need to get on board with our system.

    And that’s generally a pretty easy case to make.

    And that really the same is true for internal stakeholders as well to be able to say, Hey, we want you to get credit for the work that you’re doing.

    Right? This this whole category in Google Analytics called direct, which means Google doesn’t know and you don’t want your work falling in the I don’t know a bucket, because we don’t know if it’s yours, you want credit for what you’re doing.

    So that means making sure that you’re using tags, UTM tags, and that you’re using them properly.

    The thing that people don’t understand is that they assume source medium or equivalent and their hierarchy, right medium is the broadest category, and it’s the one that people need to, to figure out sooner rather than later.

    Source gives clarity to medium source explains medium.

    And sometimes when you’re dealing with issues where there’s tracking problems, it’s just because people don’t know that they don’t know the importance of those two and how they relate to each other.

    And that the medium is the least arbitrary of these these defined channels.

    So that’s the first part is just getting everybody to understand that requires education, a lot of education.

    Second, you need a process to do this to help manage this.

    Because if you don’t, it will remain a free for all because people get stuck in their ways.

    And the way we recommend this, it can be a super complex system, you could build a shiny web app, all this stuff or make a spreadsheet, right, a shared spreadsheet.

    So let’s flip over here.

    Take us real simple spreadsheet, and do some things like date, owner, maybe a campaign that it’s part of, and then a source and a medium.

    Right.

    And that’s the five big things Oh, and a URL, I would help, wouldn’t it.

    And then final URL, and what you’re, what you’re gonna do is put together real simple formula.

    That’s going to do things like equals concatenate.

    We’re going to do the source URL with a question mark.

    And then UTM source equals this.

    And UTM.

    Medium equals this, I get fancy.

    And UTM.

    campaign equals, and then this.

    That’s the very, very simple version, right? You’re just gluing all this stuff together.

    So if I put in today’s date, which is 1029 20, but my initials, I’ll call this you ask I answer the source.

    In this case, I’m going to putting this on YouTube, the medium is going to be let’s do well, let’s do this.

    Let’s make a list of mediums we want people to be using, right so we’re gonna do referral, organic display.

    Let’s see.

    paid search, paid social, social, regular social, email, affiliate.

    Let’s see the other sources that we want to use mediums that we want to use.

    Let’s call those mediums Then we’re going to go here to this medium, we’re going to choose format, and we’re going to do data validation.

    And I’m going to show a drop down from a range, choose our range.

    And then reject input.

    If you don’t use what’s in the drop down, save.

    And now you kind of have to choose which one of these you’re going to be doing your work in.

    Right? And that helps.

    And then let’s put the URL here.

    And then let’s fix my error.

    I, where did I screw up? See, there we go.

    And so what you see is, it’s glued together everything into one nice tracking code.

    Now, this is a very straightforward thing to do.

    And you can there’s, you can get super fancy when we’ve done this for clients, we’ve actually built a JavaScript on the back end that will control all sorts of stuff going on, you know, removing spaces, changing punctuation, making everything lowercase, etc.

    But this is, this is the starting point.

    And you share this with folks and say, Hey, everybody enter your stuff, right? So that it, it’s in one place.

    That really helps.

    Just something as simple as this really helps keep things clean.

    Especially when you do stuff like with medium where you control it, you apply some control on it and say, okay, you’re not allowed to choose something’s not in the list.

    If you need something that you know, and the list isn’t there, you can put it in.

    But fundamentally, you got to stick with what’s in the list.

    That’s how you apply some governance to this.

    The hard part is getting people to do it.

    And then making sure there’s a system in place that gives them the flexibility they need to get their work done, right.

    You don’t want to be a bottleneck or stakeholder.

    But is easy, right? And it still lets you go in and go wow, you know, if there’s an engineer, you know, Bob wrote something and just did it all wrong.

    You can then diagnosis and reach out to Bob say, Bob, that that’s not what we talked about.

    We need you to be doing this way instead.

    And again, programmatically, you can control a lot behind the scenes to help clean things up.

    If you again, if you wanted to build a web app, you certainly could.

    But I don’t know that that’s necessary.

    I think it’s a little bit overkill sometimes.

    So that’s how we do this.

    Like I said, it’s education.

    Its process.

    So be quiet.

    You’ve got follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Views and Segments in Google Analytics 4?

    You Ask, I Answer: Views and Segments in Google Analytics 4?

    Reid asks, “are you saying that we should use properties in the same way we would use views in UA? And if so, does that mean a separate tag for each property in GTM?”

    To understand the layout of Google Analytics 4 and where stuff has or has not gone, we have to understand the design philosophy. GA 4 looks at events done by users, so all the settings are centered around those. Views aren’t focused on either, so aren’t in the application; that’s something we now do in Google Data Studio.

    Likewise, segments still exist, but they’re now in the Analysis hub and are limited to Google Analytics 4 only. If you want to replicate the segments functionality of GA 3, you’ll need to use event parameters and values, constructed in Tag Manager, to permanently tag that traffic as of this writing.

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    In today’s episode Reed asks, Are you saying that we should use properties in the same way we would use views and Universal Analytics? And if so, does that mean a separate tag for each property in Google Tag Manager, this is in reference to Google Analytics for.

    So no.

    To understand the layout of Google Analytics for and where stuff has or has not gone, we have to understand the design philosophy around it.

    So Google Analytics for really just like Firebase Analytics, which if you’re familiar with Firebase, for app measurement, Google Analytics for is basically extending Firebase to the web.

    It is a market contrast to the way that Google Analytics three, aka Universal Analytics function, which was still an offshoot of the really the old, urgent analytics software at Google acquired back in 2005, right, so Google Analytics four is not just a version change in software is a completely different piece of software.

    It does not share the same code base, it does not share any of the, the the legacy stuff that has been with Universal Analytics really forever.

    And so part of that is that we have to understand there’s a new hierarchy.

    Let’s go ahead and flip over here.

    So this is Google Analytics three, if you remember, you have sort of a hierarchy of the account, which is the logical organization, you have the property, which is a logical website.

    And then you have the view, which is the logical division within your company, that would be looking at a Google Analytics data in a certain way.

    When we look at Google Analytics for the and the admin, for that, we see a very different view of the world, right, we have the account, which is still the logical entity, we didn’t have the property, which is the logical collection of users, that’s really important.

    And then within that, you think of things like data streams, which are individual pieces of data about groups of users.

    Now, why this matters is that the view is administrative, right? There’s nothing here that is unique to the user that you would be doing user level stuff with.

    Whereas in g4, they acknowledge that we’re saying, Yeah, there’s no view because all that admin stuff should be somewhere else.

    It doesn’t belong in Google Analytics.

    So let’s look at a few of these things and see, where did they go? goals? Pretty straightforward goals has become conversions.

    Right? So if we go into analytics, here, we have our conversions.

    And the conversions come from events, right? So we specify where you can either automatically detect many events, or build custom events, either in Google Tag Manager or in Google Analytics and denote them as conversions.

    So that’s a user level thing.

    And that’s now done in the main application.

    We have things like content groupings, that’s administrative that does not exist here at all, that would be something that we would do in reporting, if we want to in Google Data Studio, and to some degree can be done in, in Google Analytics for by building comparisons, right? comparisons are kind of the in application ad hoc way to build what we used to call segments and a lot of ways, right, well, you can look at dimensions and metrics and and and group things together.

    For for logical ad hoc analysis, we look at filters.

    Filters are done at the data stream level now, and there are not many right now.

    There are, I believe, honestly, like, IP filters, let’s take a look here.

    I just have some measurement stuff, I believe you can.

    I don’t remember where it is in here.

    Oh, there is cross domain tracking.

    So modify events, create events, configure domains, that’s where you do your cross domain stuff, and define internal traffic.

    So you can do modification of tagging stuff within there.

    You can also access some of the stuff through the API.

    Channels don’t exist at all in Google Analytics for that the concept I guess, didn’t work out.

    And understandably so when, if you’ve done any work with Google Analytics, three, you know, what a pain it is.

    To get channels to function correctly with the default channel groupings have been such a hot mess for so long, because people are inconsistent about how they do source and medium tagging, right.

    Anyone who’s worked with any agency any To have more than one, you know that the UTM tracking source, medium tracking is just a free for all.

    And that makes it really difficult to do any kind of analysis because there’s no consistency, right? So half of the time, half your social traffic was miscategorized as referral traffic, and things like that.

    So Google just got rid of it entirely.

    Now you have these choices, medium source, source, medium combo campaign, and then a few other things here.

    Which means that if you’re looking at things like source medium, this gives you an awful lot of data.

    Now, is it as conveniently grouped together? No, not anymore.

    But is it something that you can look at and see now logical clusterings? Yes, you can see, you know, Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn, and so on, and so forth.

    So channel groupings, kind of got ecommerce, ecommerce as a whole big bag of arms, there is there’s actually a great post by a CMO Ahava, that is like 40 pages long on all the differences between Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics three and Google Analytics four when it comes to setting up e commerce and how much of it has to be done within Google Tag Manager.

    So if you have not read seamos blog, go to Sema hava.com.

    And he’s got a huge amount of stuff on it.

    calculated metrics, again, mostly administrative segments, were an administrative thing that still technically exists in Google Analytics for, you have to go into the analysis hub for them.

    And inside the analysis hub, you can build segments, but they’re unique to Google Analytics, for as far as I know, I have not been able to replicate getting them into Google Data Studio.

    So if you want to do for example, social media traffic, you can still put together the you know, these crazy regex is and build all your let’s see, all your traffic comparisons, let’s do a traffic comparison here.

    Let’s put in our social media traffic as another segment.

    And so you can still do that.

    If you want to be able to pass the data from application to application meaning from Google Analytics to say Google Data Studio, that’s no longer the case, you used to be able to do that.

    But now, if you look inside of Google Data Studio in the GA for connector there, you really have a couple of different things.

    And it depends on how you use segments did you use segments to essentially be a type of filter, if so now, you just use the filters.

    If you use as a logical group of users, you would now build that in Tag Manager with events and parameters or event parameters and values, and then pass those parameters and values to analytics and then to Data Studio so that you could create those analytical segments.

    So it requires you to rethink how you use the segment and decide, is it just a filter? If so you can replicate it natively in Data Studio? Is it a logical grouping of users that you need to have cross platform cross application functionality that needs to be denoted in the event at the time the event is created.

    So it’s a very different way of thinking about these things.

    But what used to be in the view, is now in a bunch of different places, and a lot of that has been offloaded to other functions.

    If you use views for logical groupings inside of your company, you don’t want to create new properties, that’s just a mess waiting to happen.

    What you want to do is offload that segmentation of your internal use to Google Data Studio.

    That’s where, you know, you create a dashboard for accounting, you create a dashboard for HR, you create a dashboard for the inbound marketing team, you create a dashboard for the PPC marketing team.

    And that’s the logical way to handle what used to be digging into it and letting him have it every 40 people have access to Google Analytics, it’s really not intended for that anymore.

    It’s now an analysis tool.

    And Data Studio is the reporting tool.

    A lot of people got used to using Google Analytics for reporting.

    And that’s not its function anymore, at least from what I can tell.

    Now, I also have no internal knowledge of how Google debated isn’t based on what we can see in the application.

    So it’s a good question.

    I would not set up more than one property for more than one distinct user base.

    Instead, use the different features and use the the applications that are there to make those distinctions now, I’ve got follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: When to Switch to Google Analytics 4?

    You Ask, I Answer: When to Switch to Google Analytics 4?

    Brian asks, “When should a company really consider shifting over to Google Analytics 4?”

    Interestingly, reports from Reddit say people setting up new properties are not given an option for GA 3 (aka Universal Analytics, it is available as an ‘advanced’ option) so we’re already seeing Google pushing hard for GA 4 adoption.

    You should deploy it as soon as possible to begin collecting data in parallel with your existing Universal Analytics properties. You should also consider setting up a training property you can muck around with.

    You should begin using it as the standard of measurement once you can replicate everything that mattered to you in GA 3. That will take some time as the configuration and setup to do so will take a little while. This also requires proficiency with Google Tag Manager and Google Data Studio.

    Everyone who works on the affected team should take and pass the GA 4 migration course available for free from Google.

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    Christopher Penn 0:07 In today’s episode, Brian asks, When should a company really consider shifting over to Google Analytics for? That’s a really good question.

    Because Initially, I was saying that, you know, give yourself a lot of time to get used to it and things like that.

    But over on Reddit in the Reddit analytics subreddit, people are setting up new properties are not being given an option for ga three.

    And agencies are saying clients, big clients are asking asking for asking to switch over.

    I guess having heard of the the presumed benefits of Google Analytics for so we’re already seeing an adoption push for the technology for Google Analytics for and funnily enough, when I went over to my Google Analytics account here today, when I went to go here, and go to create a property, guess what it’s now Google Analytics for so anyone creating new Google Analytics accounts, is being shown this and getting set up by default in Google Analytics for which, if you watch other videos in this series, can present a bit of a challenge, right? If you’re not familiar with it, now, Google Analytics three, aka Universal Analytics is still available.

    It’s under the advanced options here.

    So you can also create an older legacy account as well.

    But clearly, Google has decided that GTA four is what people should be using, there’s even an upgrade option here to convert a Universal Analytics account, do not do this.

    Do not upgrade your universal account just yet.

    Create a new property for GTA four and have them run in parallel for a little while.

    And here’s why.

    We’ve talked about this a bunch of times.

    But the the measurement philosophy in Google Analytics is very different, very different from Google Analytics, three, in the sense that things are measured differently, configuration is done differently.

    And if you’re not proficient in that philosophy, Google Tag Manager and Google Data Studio, then moving to Google Analytics, four could be a bit of a learning curve.

    And by the a bit, I mean, a greased wall made of marble.

    So when should you be doing this? When should you be making the leap? Well, you should be deploying Google Analytics for as soon as reasonably possible, given any challenges you have in your culture and an organization.

    Because, as with everything with Google, nothing is retroactive.

    So the sooner that you can deploy it and get it collecting data, the better.

    Even if you don’t fully configure it, just get it out there and get it listening and gathering up information.

    Right.

    So that’s one.

    And it should be done ideally, in parallel with your existing accounts.

    Don’t touch that upgrade button, just don’t do it.

    And you probably should also set up a training property as well, you’re allowed, you know, 80 or 100 properties per Google Analytics account.

    So set up a Google Analytics for core account, and then label one your training ga four account and that can be the one that you mess around with and blow up and, and you’ll accidentally create all sorts of chaos on but have those two setup in parallel, it’s a good practice to get into is have a training ground.

    If, as in this case, you’re not resource constrained, so that you have a place for you and your team to be experimenting, and nobody’s gonna feel bad like, Oh, dang, we just nuked all of our company’s data by accident.

    That will necessitate because the property and operate to the property level that will necessitate duplicate tags and Tag Manager for your training in your Live account.

    So just keep that in mind that you’re going to need those the duplicate sets of tags.

    So that’s the deployment side.

    The bigger question, the one I think you’re really getting at Ryan is you should begin using Google Analytics for as a standard of measurement as like this is the now the the system of record.

    Once you can replicate everything in GA, for that matter to you in ga three.

    This will take some time.

    Because the configuration and the setup requires Tag Manager proficiency requires Data Studio proficiency requires organizational change behavior proficiency because you are talking about going around and interviewing stakeholders and saying, Hey, what did you use to use in ga three that was really important to you.

    One of the most important things you can do if you’ve been using Google Data Studio for a while is embed a Google Analytics tracking tag in there to see just how you know how often are people using it right if people remember that it even exists.

    If you’ve got a Christopher Penn 5:02 really important dashboard for marketing purposes, I would, I would suggest the one of the best practices there is have it be people’s homepage tab, right? When they open a new browser tab, boom, there’s their dashboard just pops up, that’s their starting page, they remember Oh, it exists.

    certainly better than putting it up like in the lobby of an office and having it be on the big screen TV.

    You know, back when we went to offices, having in someone’s browser makes it very apparent that oh, this, this is the important stuff.

    So I would say, that’s when you should start using it as a standard of measurement.

    Once you are getting the data.

    And you feel confident that everything is set up, right.

    And you’re you’ve been able to replicate all the, the custom values in the parameters and everything in ga for the use of rely on in ga three, that’s when you can say, Okay, now from this day forward, we are now at ga for shop.

    You should also make sure that people go anyone on your analytics team goes through and takes the free course from Google the next generation of Google Analytics, for course, it’s it takes about an hour to get through it.

    And you get a cute little award at the end.

    But it helps make sure that everybody understands the differences between the systems and understands how, how they’re designed to work.

    I don’t think personally, the course does a great job of explaining the measurement philosophy kind of have to figure that out yourself.

    But at least it gets to the nuts and bolts of like, what used to be this is now this, for example used to be sessions and users and, and pages now all events up and down.

    And you’ll see some other changes in the measurement philosophy too.

    For example, channel groupings and are completely gone, Google has decided that the medium is effectively the new channel grouping.

    So part of that standard of measurement.

    What about when to switch over? And not is when you have really good governance around source medium control when you’re doing tagging and tracking? Because now more than ever, you need to have that be pristine? Because if people are I’ve seen ad agencies like do you know, social media is the source of Facebook as the medium like no, that’s totally backwards.

    The medium is the broadest category of UTM tracking code, the source gives detail about the medium.

    So a consideration for that standard of measurement is Is everyone on board with governance, about tracking codes, tags, and syntax and structure it all your partners on board with it, you know, agencies and contractors and software tools.

    Because if everybody’s not on board, and you still got people just kind of doing their own thing in ga four, that means your data is going to be even more of a hot mess than it already is.

    Because you now you don’t have the channel groupings.

    To roll things up nicely.

    You will want to for example, if you if people have come to rely on Channel groupings as a form of reporting, like you know, social and referral email, in Data Studio, you’ve got to build that yourself now to replicate it so that you have clear ideas of what you want to report on.

    So these are a lot of the considerations that go into, you know, when are we ready to make the switch? replicating everything that’s important to you also means knowing what’s important to you.

    So auditing your own reports would take a look at the reports you publish for your stakeholders every, you know, week, every month, every quarter, have you replicated all those things in ga for so that you can produce that report again? Because even if you yourself have made the transition to ga for and how it’s thinking chances are your stakeholders have not and they want to see something that looks more or less like an apples to apples to the previous report so that they can say hey, x went up this month.

    So if you if you were reporting on sessions and now you know you’re looking at page visits, you’re gonna get a very different number.

    Even though page visit is one of the the core events in ga four, so there’s a lot of not only what has become what but can we make it as close to Apples to Apples so that when people do comparisons, they know what they’re looking at.

    And finally, from a process perspective, you know, making sure that you’ve got everything documented, as much as it sucks.

    I don’t like it either.

    But document everything in ga three accounts so that when you’re working in g4, you’ve got it all clear.

    So there’s a lot to do, but that’s when you should switch when you can do all that stuff.

    Got follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Interpreting Google Analytics 4 Data?

    You Ask, I Answer: Interpreting Google Analytics 4 Data?

    Ivelina asks, “I can’t find anything in the new GA4. So what if you are not that good at reading raw data?”

    You’re not alone. Many, many people are having trouble, and it’s because of the change in mindset about how Google Analytics 4 collects data. When you compare the two side by side, GA4 appears to be missing a lot more, and that’s because they’ve made the application a lot more flexible. The tradeoff is that understanding your configuration is now uniquely up to you. Be sure you’re using it for what it’s intended for: analysis, not reporting.

    That’s the key mindshift to understand: Google Analytics is no longer a reporting tool. That’s Data Studio’s role.

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    In today’s episode evalina asks, I can’t find anything new Google Analytics for.

    So what if you are not that good at reading raw data? Yeah, so you’re not alone.

    In this, many, many people are having trouble.

    And it’s because of the change in mindset about how Google Analytics four collects data, and how it displays data.

    Google Analytics, four has a very different philosophy about measurement and about the way it’s structured.

    It is a lot more freeform.

    The onus of configuration has been, in some ways put on the user.

    Let me show you an example.

    So let’s let’s switch over here.

    So what we’re looking at here, this is Google Analytics, three data, right? This is in Google Data Studio.

    And one of the things you’ll notice is that when you set up your first table, or whatever, in Google Analytics, three classic Google Analytics, you’re given all these different options for the different things that you can report on, right? There’s a lot of them, if you count through the API guide, there’s 510 different dimensions and metrics out of the box that you can report on.

    And this gets to be a lot, right? There’s, there’s an awful lot of stuff here that, you know, granted, many people have spent a lot of time over the last 15 years learning.

    But from a configuration perspective is not very flexible.

    When you look at Google Analytics major competitor Omniture, from Adobe, it’s a lot more Adobe’s Omniture is more flexible in that it tries to get things like you know, goals to be more flexible and have more options.

    And it’s really, it’s difficult to do that, in classic Google Analytics.

    When you look at Google Analytics for and what comes out of the box, you’ll notice this list is a lot shorter, right? It is down to events, conversions, you know, sessions users some of the real basics.

    So the question is, where did it all go? Where it all has gone, is, instead of Google saying, here’s all the things that you have available to you, Google saying, you decide what is available to you, you decide what you want, in your configuration, build it with Tag Manager, and then the things that are important to you put in here.

    So for example, I put in just a value field, right, even though obviously, there’s an event value.

    But I can add fields and parameters.

    So in Google Tag Manager, I would go in and define if there’s something really weird or unique about the way I want to be tracking a type of conversion, maybe a parameter that isn’t included out of the box.

    Now, I can go in, for example, to Google Tag Manager and just set it up and just run that conversion or that event with my thing or the thing that I care about.

    whereas previously in the in the older version of Google Analytics, I couldn’t do that.

    Right.

    So let’s look at this example here.

    If I go to newsletter, so I can edit this now at and instead of having to mess around with, you know, categories and actions and labels and all that stuff in in Google Analytics three, I can specify what parameters I want to track, is it a button, click sure I can put that in here.

    Is it the day of the week? Sure, I can put that in here, too.

    And so this philosophy is that Google has switched to in and Google Analytics for is that you decide what’s important to you.

    You decide beyond the basics, that it sets up out of the box, if there are specific values that you want to have.

    And then they appear as fields and parameters in in Data Studio in the back end, and you can report on them.

    So for example, if you wanted, if you had a website where you had users who are logged in, and I was something that tag managers already set up to track, right? You could, in your goals, specify a logged in user.

    Right, so it’s a lot more flexible in Google Analytics, three, you’d have to jump to all sorts of kinds of hoops just to make that work, but in Google Analytics for you and make that available parameter that would be trackable.

    And then you could measure those conversions, the event of the conversions, and split it up between logged in user and not logged in user.

    So that’s the trade off that Google Analytics for is trying to make is, Google has said your configuration is up to you.

    Instead of trying to guess what everybody wants and making 510 values, many of which most of us aren’t going to use.

    Google is said you decide what you want to use, you program it into Tag Manager and will display it.

    That’s one of the reasons why they can now offer BigQuery the database to everyone who’s using Google Analytics for account because there’s a pretty good chance that most of us are not going to try and replicate all 510 of the old fields right into into this.

    And so the data storage footprint is going to be a much smaller for Google Analytics for in the beginning.

    As you add more customizations, as you add more stuff, it will get bigger.

    Now to the question of, you can’t find anything? Yeah, there’s, again, what comes out of the box is not designed for the end user, the business end user in Google Alex for it’s designed for someone who is an actual analyst.

    So if we go into my ga four view here, Google Analytics four is an actual analytics engine, in the sense that there’s a few canned reports.

    So acquisition is pretty straightforward.

    Where’d my stuff come from, right users traffic engagement is pretty straightforward.

    What got people stick around.

    So this is the pages.

    And then these are all the events that you could be sending.

    Again, everything is at the event level in Google Analytics for so you get the standard ones here, but you can program and more you can program in return users, right, it’s not necessarily included out of the box, you can program in logged in users, you can program in users who have been on more than five pages, highly engaged users, any event that you could think of that fits within the event model, you can program in here, and then you can report on it.

    monetization is pretty straightforward.

    e commerce, I think it’s actually easier now for folks than it is in in ga three and that there’s less to turn on.

    It’s a lot of e commerce stuff is baked right in.

    And as long as your e commerce vendor is using a sensible structure and or an approved Google structure from ga three, it’s going to show up automatically in ga four.

    So that is equally pretty straightforward.

    And then retention.

    You know, how did you keep your users is all pretty straightforward stuff.

    But again, this is an analysis engine.

    So you can see at any point in the application, you can add in more stuff, you can remove stuff.

    And then if you go into the analysis hub, you can actually find individual templates.

    This is where some of the more traditional reports from Google Analytics, three are now showing up.

    So you can start to look at specific use cases and have these essentially, pre built reports brought into ga four.

    But ga four is not where you’re supposed to be doing.

    Your reporting.

    So as you’re doing your analysis here, you do detective work here, and then you report in Data Studio.

    So the big question that you have to tackle with Google Analytics for is, if you can’t find something, is it because g4 is has removed it or because ga four is now no longer the place to be doing that.

    If you’ve got a canned report that you use a lot in ga three, there’s a very good chance that the intent is that you replicate it as a dashboard in Data Studio and ga four.

    And that’s where you do that you look for those canned reports, because analysis is different than reporting.

    analysis is figuring out what happened.

    And then Data Studio and reporting is telling somebody else what happened and letting them have a consolidated view of that so that they don’t have to repeat the in the analysis process.

    And that’s going to be a big, big head shift for a lot of folks is they’re used to ga being a reporting tool.

    And it’s now an analysis tool.

    So that means you’ve got to get really comfortable with Data Studio and start working with data, even with ga three, your existing Google Analytics account and get used to working with Data Studio get used to building reports that fit your needs.

    And it will make working with Google Analytics for a lot easier.

    Because you won’t have to be trying to force this interface to do things that it no longer does.

    Instead, look at your ga three account and say okay, how can I take this report that I’m very familiar with and replicate it in ga four? tall order? If you have follow up questions about leaving the comments box below, subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter.

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